BIG SOFT SUGAR COOKIES
(Recipe stolen from my
wonderful Mother-in-Law)
Ingredients:
♦ 1
1/2 cups Sugar
♦ 1
stick butter, softened
♦
1/2 cup of shortening
♦ 3
eggs
♦ 1
tsp vanilla
♦ 3
1/2 cups flour
♦ 2
teaspoons baking powder
♦ 1
1/2 teaspoons salt
Directions:
In a large bowl,
blend together sugar, butter and shortening until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla
until well-mixed. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and
salt. Gradually add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Stir until well
blended. Form dough mixture into a ball and place back in the bowl. Put plastic
wrap over the bowl and refrigerate for at least 2 hours (I refrigerate my dough
overnight).
After the cookie dough has been chilled, preheat oven to
375 degrees. Roll out the cookie dough on a floured surface (you can use
powdered sugar for added sweetness instead of flour if you prefer). For a
softer sugar cookie, roll out the dough thicker (I rolled out my dough to be a
1/3 inch thick). Cut out cookies using a cookie cutter and space 1/2 inch apart
on a cookie sheet.
Depending on your size cookie cutter and the thickness of
your dough will determine how long you will bake the cookies. It should be
between 7-10 minutes. Just be sure to take the cookies out of the oven BEFORE
the tops start to brown. If you bake them too long they will be crunchy, not
soft.
After all of your cookies have cooled, frost them. I used
Betty Crocker's canned vanilla frosting, but blended it with 1/2 cup of
powdered sugar so that the frosting was thicker. Decorate as desired!
ENJOY YOUR BIG, SOFT SUGAR COOKIES!
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